"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
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"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
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"Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night. I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic. If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips. I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's a pretty good one."
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"I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful."
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
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"Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful."
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"No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?"
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"No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?"
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"One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."
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"If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being."
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"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
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"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
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"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
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"Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise."
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"To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves."
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"When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day."
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"And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!"
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"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."
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"To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them."
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"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."
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